there are 4 phone booths in NYC, this is one of them
West End Avenue and 101st street from Scouting New York. All four are on West End Avenue actually – at 101st, 100th, 90th and 66th.
Update: Infrastructurist points out several more in NYC, including one at 42nd and 5th as well as a lone phone booth on a Govenors Island pier.
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It was written on July 8th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
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July 10th, 2009 at 8:22 am
[…] “there are 4 phone booths in NYC, this is one of them” If this fact is true that’s quite amazing. When I think about how NYC was shown in film many years ago before mobile phones were out, phone booths played a role in the set. How times change. […]
July 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I believe there is also still one on the mezzanine of the Rockefeller Center subway station.